Carotid Stenting Linked to High Real-World Mortality | Medpage Today.
One-third of Medicare patients died in the 2 years after the procedure.
NaBloPoMo09
Income and ADL’s
Prostate Cancer – To HIFU or Not to HIFU?
High Intensity Focused Ultrasound.
Rituxan (rituximab) Linked to PML
Healthcare Reform – Get Your Copy Here
Click here to get your very own copy of the Senate Finance Committee’s healthcare reform bill.
You won’t get any political commentary, nor an opinion from this blog. You can read the 1502 page bill yourself and formulate your own opinion.
Let the real debate begin.
CRP Meta-Analysis
Strong evidence indicates that CRP is associated with CHD events. Moderate, consistent evidence suggests that adding CRP to risk prediction models among initially intermediate-risk persons improves risk stratification. However, sufficient evidence that reducing CRP levels prevents CHD events is lacking.
Marijuana Health Risks
Car wrecks may be the most significant and well-documented adverse health effect of smoking marijuana, as clear evidence that it causes schizophrenia or other health problems is largely missing, a literature review showed.
Overall, “the public health burden of cannabis use is probably modest compared with that of alcohol, tobacco, and other illicit drugs,” Australian researchers reported in the Oct. 17 issue of The Lancet.
Dexferrum Bad
Note: this drug is only used for end stage renal patients.
GDF-15 Predicts Mortality
LAVI
…it makes intuitive sense that LA enlargement, as a nonspecific marker of high LV diastolic pressure due to any cause, is a marker of adverse prognosis.
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